Phasers Set To Stun: Lower Decks S5.E10 The New Next Generation

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1:02 Scott Hoffman and I'm Wayne whited. Read Alert you lower deckers. This episode is full of spoilers, so if you haven't seen it, please go do so and then come back to join us. Well, we have sadly reached the end of a wonderful ride with the USS Soritos. Episode ten, The New Next Generation, written by Mike Mahan and directed by Megan Lloyd. Megan has done a lot of stuff this season, guys that I have noticed, and she has done a fantastic job, and she does it again in this episode. But before we dig into it, Wayne, what was this episode all about?

1:43 Continuing on from the events of the last episode's cliffhanger, Lieutenant Boemler has received a message from the alternate Universe and with it a mission. The USS Siritos must close the rift before their reality and all other realities are completely destroyed. Things aren't going to be easy for them when the Klingon brothers Maha and may Lore show up, pursued by a fleet seeking revenge against them. It's a race against time and with reality changing around them every second, it will take the expertise of every member of the crew of the USS Siritos to save the multiverse. Gentlemen, there are many things to love about this episode, but the one thing that I like to point out is that it brought the best out of the crew and really centered on the core characters, which is what we needed. Ye You know, this episode truly gave us what we needed without overloading it and leaving us with this wanting more from this crew, but still making us feel satisfied. You know it really to me, it really felt like the series finale all good things with the Next Generation, where it just left it open and you've got you could have more coming down the road, which I hope we do have, because there's oh much goodness in this episode. The whole series has been fantastic, but this episode just, man, it just had me on the edge of my seat wanting more and wanting more, and just seeing where they were going to go with it and their closing on it just was fantastic in my opinion.

3:14 What do you guys think? Yeah, I mean they it was expertly written, perfectly directed. It's the It's the epitome of what I think really works about Lower Decks. It's the the unexpected relationships that work well together. They managed to wrap up a finale for a series that's had fifty episodes, which I think is amazing in and of itself, But it. Was so. Jam packed with this epic finale, but it breezes right by in thirty minutes that in and of itself is amazing.

3:56 But I've watched this two or three times already, and it doesn't seem to skip a beat. It doesn't seem to leave you wanting more. You know, in that they you know, it seems like they missed something. It's a little bit more like I can see exactly where they could go with this, which is ironic because of the portal there next year. There's so many possibilities so they can do. You know, the pacing was perfect in this episode. It wasn't Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm glad they gave it a little extra time too, and let the run time run over a half hour because it needed it. Like you said, it wasn't crammed. But I'm very satisfied with how it ended. A little surprised, but very satisfied.

4:37 You know, over the last nine episodes, nine podcasts we've done over this season, you know, we we talked about not seeing much of this, this overlying seasonal story that we knew was taking place, but we had no clue at bathtball Us. You know, here we got in this final episode. You know, we got elements of practically every episode that came before it this year, it all came together. We got we were getting pieces of that story and we didn't even realize it. That. I love that. I thought that was actually brilliant the way they pulled that off. Yeah, I agree with that. Wayne. I felt like at times we're getting a little lost and like where are we going? With this season. This is it. But then when they wrap it all up, it isn't a you know, wrapped up a nice bow for us because it's perfect.

5:22 Yeah yeah, all the threads connect. Yeah right, we come back with this satisfying connection to each of them. There were a. Couple that kind of puzzled me, like when the uh, the guy who drops out of the ceiling in Sick Bay. There are little things like that's I forget what that is, but I kind of want to go back and watch the rest of it now right there. There were a lot of little gags and stuff. I mean, you have to watch this episode quite a few times to catch catch all of them, and you'll still miss some O And there were a lot of a lot of callbacks to just this series, which I like. I'm glad that they didn't bog this down with a lot of continuity, with a lot of guests appearing ins and things that they centered on the lower decks and that's what it is seeded. We didn't get another repeat of like Enterprises finale. I'm so happy about that.

6:10 Yeah, No, I completely agree. I mean I felt like, you know, we we we focused on the main core of these characters, that we've grown to love and watch over these five seasons, and they did that perfectly in this episode. And it's everything that I wanted, to be honest with you, I always talk about. I think last up this week we kind of talked about the animation. The animation this one was phenomenal. Yes, the whole the whole Klingon ships, the fighting, Oh yeah, that was all absolutely so well done. It really was. Even the cleanon Captain's little dog. Yeah, that looked like that was like prime Disney. Kind of thing. That had me laughing. It was like the tar version of a shihuahuah. That thing was ugly.

6:52 Yeah. When a screen He's like, they're like the full screen, Oh great, and yet you can see it becoming like a plushy right yeah. Oh yeah, definitely absolutely good. I get a change that. I'm sorry ahead, okay, but I just wanted to say that opening shot with the Klingons when they were approaching the rift. I had a lot of vibes all during this episode and start Trek in the motion picture. They yes, they did a. Lot of emulating these shots from that film, and. I love that, Yeah, said exact vibes. I was getting too Wayne, so I think that's exactly what they were going for. That's spot on for sure. One of the things that I laughed hysterically the last episode, and I'm kind of glad they revisited was Boemler getting the message on the tablet and freaking out again. You know when they showed that in its entirety, and you knew what they were doing when they went back, you know, they were all like, you know, having a drink and stuff like that, and you knew that, Oh, this is kind of like right before he gets that message on the travelet and then when he lost it, you just hear him going off in the distance just screaming. I laughed so damn hard at that scene, man, just because of that.

7:53 Yeah, the voice telling in this is top notch. I mean, specifically Jack Quaid, Right. It would be amazing to watch any one of these cast members, you know, specifically Boimeler and Shacks. I'd love to be there in the recording studio just to see the footage of them, you know, live action doing these freakouts, right. I mean, you'd have to be laughing, right, You're you're you're the person that's recording the audio. You've got to be laughing hysterically and listening and watching these guys, right, Yeah, a lot of fun. Yeah, I'm intentionally gonna be Jonathan Frakes and do a two take and just say, yeah, that was great, Jack. You went wailing around for like ten minutes. Can you just do that again? No doubt about it. There are so many good things in this episode that we could be sitting here talking forever about it. To be honest with you, yeah, just giving everybody the proper amount of time, you know, to just I felt like like I'm satisfied at the end, But it's like, can we please have a movie with these characters? Oh?

8:51 Yeah, please? Can you know if you want give us a movie on paramount plus if you want to go live action with it, I would be okay with That would be tough to do because there's a lot of stuff that works an animation that might not work in live action. But we've had a little bit of a live action you know, came over to Strange New Worlds. But there's so many ways that could go with it. I mean, you know, jumping a little bit ahead of the whole ending, that opens up the door for anything, you know, in our dimensional travel now, you know Captain Freeman. You know, she's funny enough on Starbase eighty now, but I had a feeling that's where that was going to go, even though when that joke popped up earlier in the season. But you know, there's so much they could do with that well, and I hope they do revisit that because that would be very interesting.

9:34 It shows how much they clearly have to love Deep Space nine, right by having starbas Ad be right there at the edge of the rift become liaisons to an unusually important gateway, like, yeah, make that into a movie, or just agree make a movie about something completely different, but just have that be a part of it still be satisfying. Yeah. I had that same feel too. I mean it felt like just like Deep Space nine, and I know that's where they're going for you know, the way this episode really changed the whole course of Star Trek and it's exploration that it's that's brilliant. You know, they now have all of reality to explore, you know, that's it's mind blowing. I mean where they could take this, you know, and the fact that Starbase eight is now the guardian of the of the rift and that she's in charge. I just I hope we see more, and I'm pretty confident that we will. I don't think this is the end we'll see of Lower next it's the end of having seasons of it. But I'm sure these characters will appear again on Scream.

10:34 I'm sure we'll talk about a little bit of this in the Easter Eggs coming up. Wayne. But you know, when the ship kept changing, man, I'm telling you, that was fantastic because I'm sitting in the anticipating what else is it going to become? What else is it going to become? You know, and then it just went when I felt Enterprise D and then it's just like, oh my god, you know this, this is awesome. You know, keep keep doing this. And you know, I think, didn't we get a shot of Enterprise EE for the first time? Yes, yes we did. It was at the end of the episode. Yeah. Yeah. So it's so cool that they cram a lot of the stuff in here, and you know, going back to watch it, as you said earlier, you should go back and watch this episode two or three times because I guarantee their stuff you've missed. And there was a shot at the way at the end when just before the Seritas left where they panned over the Enterprise E to the Seririto. So it reminded me a lot of that shot from I think it was Star Trek four or five where they panned over the Excelsior and there was the Enterprise A. I love that because it shows that, you know, yeah, while the Enterprise has been the ship that we followed so many times, there are other ships in the Star Coming fleet that have their other stories. And that's what Lower Decks has given us, is given us the story of the Cerritos, the story of another ship, and I love that. I love exploring what can be done with the Star Trek universe like this.

11:49 You've got to give it to Titmouse animation aside from the individual animators that are doing it, but the fact that they had to cycle through so many different ships on the outside, but then they also had to cycle through so many ships at the same speed on the l cars on the inside. Yeah, with all that detail, it's kind of like, all right, draw this entire ship the layout the blueprints, Okay, now do a whole different one to replace it. Beyond for about three seconds. Yeah, it's it's done perfectly. It was when they cling on ship turned into like that ancient clingon like vessel in an ocean off. Yeah, it's gonna happen to us. Well yeah, well I love Who's lens that Doctor to Anna had the line, why isn't their ship transforming? Well it probably is. Clean outs have hardly ever update their designs.

12:40 They always wanted them to look like a big stupid bird. Yeah like that. That's right, though, It's true. Something that caught my attention or kind of came to mind the fact that they're positioned outside star Base eighty. So not only did they save their own reality, so in that sense, they're not only you know, pioneering frontiers. They can explore their big heroes because they save their reality, but they're also pioneering Lily Sloan's reality, their version of Starfleet. But they had been exploring just kind of willy nilly with these holes that had to be sewn up. Now they've got stable technology, which is the crux of their entire fleet, you know that and of itself has got to be Like I mean, when I saw Tendy a little bit later and she still had just one pip, I'm like, seriously, after all this.

13:30 Just have a pip. Man them all pips. Give them all pips for crying out loud. They've learned them. You know. It's one of the scenes in this episode that I absolutely love and it just shows you the growth of the characters. Is when Boimer and Mariner are talking to Captain Freeman and Captain Freeman basically you know, believes in them, trust them, and just just go with it. Go you know, you guys are in charge of this, go for it, and they're kind of like taken aback by it, especially Marion, like, uh, what, you know, if they've grown to that point that they can be thrusted in this stuff, they've proven it, so go for it. And I love that moment. I really did. And speaking of growing, you know, one thing I want to bring up is the character of Rutherford and this episode.

14:14 You know when when this when the episode started, I wasn't sure what exactly they were doing with him. You know, he spent the first half of the episode complaining he's he's he's mad. You know, it seemed very off character for him at the time, but then I'd forgotten that earlier this season, you know, he was having trouble connecting to the soritos with his implants. Then I slipped my mind completely, but you know, it ended up with showing how much he has grown when he realized he didn't even need those implants to be a good, a great starfleet engineer. You know. It links his story to the rest of the lower Deckers, which we've seen all season, the growth of these characters and the way they discover their true selves. I love that that ending, That that great wrapping up for his character.

15:02 But he would without it without. Right, that shocked me a little bit. Well, it took me back to that episode where we meet kind of his past self for his other self. But yeah, he had a great line of dialogue. I don't know exactly what the words were, but he basically says, there is no better ship for this situation that the Critos has specifically made to adapt, Like they turned into a sovereign class and they're like, oh, we'll have to settle for it, I guess, but he's like, no, we want to be the California Class because it's what can adapt to the situation, what can help them get through these what do they call them Shortinger's field. Yeah, a little bit there, just being able to adapt and Rutherford knowing that it isn't him that has to change, he needs to kind of accept the ship.

15:52 Yeah, this this show has a lot of good one liners, and they've they've carried that on over and over and over throw the seasons. There's not two mini shows that you can hear the words all hands braced for weird and believe it and understand it and go with it because it's perfect for the show. It really when Captain Freeman yelled at I was like, are you kidding me? And I just started laughing because that was hysterical and it happened so fast that if you weren't paying attention to it, you were going to miss her line. But I thought that was that was fantastic. But even when Shacks realized how amazing their weapons were and he goes, oh, and our weapons are down. Yeah, He's like, oh, we got tearing class weapons. This is gonna be awesome, but they're down. Yeah.

16:34 Well, as far as I was, I was just happy that we got two back to back what was it, uh Uzani? When the light came over the mountain and Jenzo was the truth was uncovered, I was like, back. To back, Yes, Sah so so fantastic. Man. There's just a lot of stuff in this to watch and listeners. If you watch it, go back and watch it again because there's so much you're going to see again that you would have absolutely missed. There's no about that. How do you guys feel about and I'm I'm ecstatic that it happened. How are you feeling about Ransom taking over the ship? I love it. I think it's perfect. Yeah, it seems like the natural progression, you know, although I'm not crazy about his engage the court, engage the it's perfect.

17:19 Perfect And they were even having that conversation too, they're like, what's gonna be? Your saying you know what's going to be and it is like engage the court, like oh no, no, no, yeah. If we ever have a continuation of this, which I really hope we do. Uh, there's no better choice for for the captain. Like, you've got the most riggerish person on the on the ship. And I say that with love, but he's just the kind that's going to be able to push the buttons on Mariner and drive Boimler crazy with a bunch of you know, neuroseias and whatnot. But Jerry O'Connell has done such a great job as Ransom.

18:05 He's probably not a character you're supposed to like all that much, but he's he's so fantastic in this I got to give him credit. Yeah, but we you know, over the season, we've always mentioned about how much of a buffoon he can be, but he's also proved how great of an officer he's been in any of these last episodes. So he'll make it down captain. Yeah, absolutely, And he brings up the best in people. He's the he's the first one that Borneman realized what was going on when he thought he's being used in episode, remember that's right, and then boilers like when Ransom was like no, no, no, he says, you're you're a great officer, you know, I you know, I believe you know, and that's why I picked you. So Ransom was good with that stuff. He really is and he may look like a buffoon sometimes but and we've learned that he kind of did that on purpose to make people be good and do their job. So yeah, I think he's the perfect captain to take over this ship. And the fact that you know, which I think is funny, that boy Marriy Mariner didn't want this competition with each other to become the first officer of the three toast. But I love that aspect too. I hate the fact that we're going to miss out on that. I hope that maybe down the road we won't that we'll get to see that.

19:15 But I would love to see that happening because that could be some very good episodes. It really could. Oh yeah, yeah. But I hope it doesn't take too long, too, because I know that there are probably some people that might still be resistant to it. I would say, you know, it takes ten half hour episodes to digest this season, right, it doesn't take much to dive into it, and I guarantee it's going to be satisfying. You just have to give it the benefit of the doubt and dive into it. You'll never find more depth in modern Star Trek from a place that's totally unexpected and very very original. And we've had that conversation a few times, I believe this season, where we've talked about how there's a lot of people out there fans of Star Trek who just don't get of the animation. A look, you know you're missing out.

20:04 You really they're missing out of great stories. They're missing out of a lot of laughs and a lot of returns and Easter eggs are missing out on so much. They need to start watching it and ye and embracing it as part of Star Trek because it is. It is. I completely agree, it's It's been a great ride these five seasons. It has been fantastic. I know. I remember when the season one started coming out and I'm like, you know, it's kind of new for Star Trek. I mean, I know we had the original animation years and years ago, but this is kind of, you know, new ground for Star Trek, at least modern Star Trek that we were getting an animation. And then when you realize the route they were taking, you know, comedy and it was about the lower decks. At first, it was like, we're you know, how how are they going to do that?

20:51 How are they going to capture that magic that is Star Trek in animation and do it as a comedy and do it with the lower deckers. Boy, did they nail it? Telling you they proved me wrong because at first I'm like, I don't think this is gonna work. And then I started watching it more and more, and then it just really became magic. It did right away too, right away, right in season one. Yeah, so it's it's fantastic, and I really feel sad for those who won't give an animation a chance and don't consider it as canon, because I'm sorry, it's cannon. Yes, it is, absolutely Yeah, and you're gonna see I guarantee you're gonna see the love for this series double when people are looking back on it. I think, Yeah, there's a lot of people that will have, you know, kind of missed the boat. They'll catch up to it later, and it's gonna get that kind of renaissance love that things like ES and nine get that. You know, Next Generation was getting flack when that was first coming out, and look what's happening with that.

21:48 So yeah, agree, true, absolutely. All right, guys, Well, let's move on to some of our favorite parts that we always like to discuss on each of these episodes of Lower Decks. So, which character do you think stole the episode in this one? Wayne, you kind of gave something that I was going to talk about, so I think you kind of let it out of the bag on a character. So I'm curious for what you is. Nah, you're going to be surprised on my answer. Oh okay, because I absolutely refused to pick one single character this time. I refused because for me, the spotlight of this episode which shine the most was the crew of the USS Critos as a whole.

22:29 Yeah. That the way they came together to solve the solution or that the situation, and let's be honest, this was a situation that would have been difficult for even the Enterprise and their crew to handle. I mean the way they found the best of themselves they worked together. That was the highlight of the episode for me, the accumulation of five years of growing and discovering themselves and they all got to shine together one last time. So I am going to give a weird answer, and that's the crew is. I'm not surprised by the answer, actually. Wayne, he's putting an hoffmanship for that. He is. I'm not surprised by that actually, And I'll tell a little bit more on that. Scott, what about.

23:10 You, Well, I'm gonna give an answer to the first part when you talked about favorite moments. I can't let it go by. I gotta say cetacean ops. I loved how much attention cetation ops got like, I mean, think about that on a starship we have like the Dolphin deck. Yeah, gotta be gotta be said. For me, so I was focusing on one character, and for me, I think the one who had the strongest arc felt like Rutherford. I don't know that he gets many many mentions like in this season, but his ingenuity, his willingness to continue to pursue the solution, and I mean he pumped the rift's energy directly into the core to transform the rift itself, and just the fact that he was able to go through that kind of process of relearning that it was that he was still in love with the Curritos, he just didn't know how to work with it anymore, and once he discovered that, it all fell into place.

24:15 Yeah. Absolutely, So for me, it absolutely is Rutherford. I agree with Wayne, it's it's nice to give to the whole crew here and they deserve every one of them because it's been fantastic. But Rutherford really felt to me that he finally took that step forward to become, you know, someone else, even though he wasn't. You know, he's losing his interest, he's getting angry at every single thing, and even admitting that he's losing his love of the Soritos, which was kind of taken aback by everybody, like what what do you mean? And it really felt like, I see where they're going with this. They're basically going to say that by the beginning to the end of this episode, Rutherferg's going to go off on another ship, or it's gonna or something's gonna happen to this character by the end of this episode. That's what I felt like. And but then no, they they tracked on that, and then when he realized he eternal internalized that it was his implants that was holding him back and causing this to happen, and he removes them, saves the ship and the crew, and just becomes who he should have been all along.

25:18 You know, he made that that step forward, and that really is like, man, this is incredible for Rutherford, and that's why I had to go with him. So it's gott I completely agree with you on that. But again, when your answers was perfect too, it was really hard to decide because everybody had that Pip perfect moment. They really you're you're both right. I mean I mentioned earlier, you know, his storyline and this is great and everything you said is spot on. Love the character, Yeah, absolutely, some of it just came to mind though, Dave, Well, you're saying that I had forgotten that the first episode of this season, when we meet the alternate realities, Rutherford Boimler is trying so hard to become the other Boimler, and we see Rutherford to the exact opposite.

26:05 Yep. Right, He's struggling with the tech and it's only until he decides to give it up that he finally founds it, finds his place instead of diving in so deep to the tech as his alternate had done. I think his character grew so much. Everyone's character grew so much this season, but it was nice to really see him break out of that too here at the end. It really did ye. All right, let's get into that tribal left. Which lower Decker team would you join on the Sritos for this episode? And I have a feeling we'll probably all agree on this one, So Scott you go first. Mine's Ruthford. I'll double down to experiment with so many different versions of the Crito's so every time it transforms, he gets to explore another ship. And I couldn't even keep count of how many. I'm sure Wayne has an estimation at least, and the fact that he had to fall back in love with the California class in the end.

26:57 I'll say it again, like to go through that journey had to be such a powerful emotional moment. You know, though I am here for that, what about you? I chose Captain Freeman. You know. You know, she's taking command of Starbaks eighty, which might be a little rough around the edges. You know, the three of us talked how much we liked that star bas back earlier this season, but she's starting a whole new journey for herself, the beginning of a whole new journey for Starfleet today. It reminds me so much of when Commander Cisco had first come on board Deep Space nine. You know, it was terrifying, it was overwhelming, but the possibilities are are limitless, and I'd want to be in her shoes at that.

27:40 Good choice, I really is. I didn't think about that one, but that's that's a good Pickwayne. I'm gonna double down with Scott too and say Rutherford for all the reasons that we've already given, just growing and coming to terms what was bothering becoming someone better. I just I just absolutely would love to have been that character and seeing that growth, and we all would love to have something like that happened to us. But again, I don't think there's any bad pick in this episode. They were all fantastic, every one of them. You know, getting to even see to go back to Captain Freeman a little bit there, Wayne, even getting to see her belief in her daughter Mariner. Yeah, you know, yes, you see that several times in this episode, and Mariners still kind of taken back. She's not used to that, but she needs to come to terms that she has become what her mother would hope she would become, and you know, she became herself. But she also has proven to become an incredible officer, not only for the Soritos, but for the Federation, for everybody, for Starfleet, all of them, you know. So seeing that happen too, I thought was incredible.

28:47 All Right, Well, let's move on and talk about I know Wayne's favorite part of this, and I'm anxious to see what he's got. Let's talk about the Easter eggs. Wayne, what'd you find? Well, let's start off with something that we kind of briefly touched on. When the anomaly hits the kling On ship, one of the Klingons briefly turns into an early Star Trek Discovery version of the Klingons. This is the first time that we saw this look outside of Star Trek Discovery, which you know, by the third season of that series they pretty much abandoned that design. The anomaly also transforms the Cerritos into many other types of ships, as we'd mentioned, but let's go over them. Of course, you know, the Critos is a California class, but then it turns into a Freedom Class, then a Sovereign class, which is the type of enterprise he is. We have the Galaxy class, of course, the O Birth class you remember that as the USS Grisom from Star Trek three, and then we got the Mirandocrat class that was the US's Reliant from Star Trek two. Plus we get to see what the Mirror Universe ISS Cerritos would have looked like. And speaking of that Mirror universe, that tearing Empire logo that was seen on the bridge of the is Cerritos, that's a new design that's only been seen a couple of times.

30:00 Once on Star Trek Prodigy second season. The episode that they did called Cracked Mirror, but it first appeared in the IDW comic book called Star Trek Mirror Broken back in twenty eighteen. It's a little bit of different design. It looks like it's got wings on the side. It's really cool. The Freedom Class starship in its one nay Cell was first seen as one of the destroyed ships at Wolf three five nine and Next Generations Best of Both Worlds Part two. I don't know how it develops a warp bubble either. Now, when Relga and her crew get hit by the anomaly, they devolved into proto Klingons.

30:43 That's just like Wharf did. Back during the seven season Next Generation episode Genesis, we got a reappearance of Lieutenant O'Connor. This is the man that fell through the portal in Sick Bay. He is from the first season episode Moist Vessel, where he had ascended to the Koala of He's now back after five hours, kind of curious as to what is his adventures were there. And then, of course, finally near the end of the episode, we got that brief parent appearance of the USS Enterprise that was sitting outside the stable Riff. I just want to mention that this makes this episode chronologically the next appearance of the Enterprise after Star Trek Nemesis.

31:26 Oh nice. That's a lot of good finds there, Wayne, well done, Scott. Anything that you Wayne might have missed, I doubt it. But hey, well, mine's not an answer as a question. There was a scene, and I forget which one it was. There's the bridge was filled with core cast members. There was one person that was kind of injured in the Deanna Troy position, but I didn't recognize the character, and it was almost like this person seems to just kind of snuck a snuck in out of nowhere, and it might I feel. Like, if I remember the scene you're talking about, I think that might be doctor Tiana. But she's wearing her pirate outfit. Nope, it's not her. No. Interesting, but no, I'll have to go back and look at that.

32:18 Then yeah, has like a head wound or something like that, and it's just like, all right, everybody is here. There's no other crew members on the bridge except for this one injured guy sitting in Troy's position, And I'm like, is that kind of like. A que easter? Egg or something like that, Like, that's not somebody that just kind of snuck into the scene and then. I'll have to go back and take a look at that. But I mean there were appearances from so many characters from all five seasons. They briefly appearing it. You know, things like there were so many of them that I didn't mention that slipped by. But it's great that they squeezed everybody in here. So it's probably is someone of meeting someone with a name that I just I don't remember. Yeah, a ton of fun cameos though, especially the nod back to the Twains.

33:02 Yeah for the end that yeah. Well it's just again, it's just a shame that the the series had to come to an end like this. I wish we had. I would love to say one more season, but you know, you can always say that when you get this kind of goodness out of a show. It's been fun talking about it too. It has absolutely and I mean I'll just throw out another plug to uh if you go to uh titmouse dot com, I think specific tit mouse stuff is where they have a shop where you can get shirts, pins, a lot of swag that shows you love for lower Decks. I know that when we were at a con recently, we saw a couple of people actually you know, cosplaying as Lower Deckers. When you see them, you're just gonna like, I got to point it out. I gotta say, that's awesome that you're showing love for it. So if you have a chance, I would chase down some of that swag, show Tip Mouse the support that it deserves and maybe we can get a little bit more.

34:00 And also let me mention that if you are missing Lower Decks and you just want some more. IDW Comics has just started a new series just this last month of Star Trek Lowerdecks comic book. They just released tissue two last week, So while it's not the TV series, but you can get a little bit of your fix there. Yeah, a little more love of Lower Decks, that's for sure. All right, All right, listeners, our channels are open for communication. Tell us what you thought about this episode and the fact this was our last episode of Lower Decks. Do you want more? Do you want to film as much as we do? Let us know by sending email to a Film by Podcast at gmail dot com, or reach us online at a film by Podcast dot com or follow us on all social media platforms, and if you're looking for more exclusive content and swag, send some Platinum our Way through Patreon. All Right, we will return phaser set this done on January twenty second, where we will go back to do Trek dictations again like we did back towards the beginning of this year. We will dive down and talk about what we can expect from Star Trek this year and in the future. All hands brace for weird guys. Thank you so much for joining us as always and talking about Star Trek our love.

35:19 That's been a great adventure. Thank you about all right, thanks for listening. Everybody, engage the core